Statistics have shown that those with preexisting health conditions, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are much more likely to suffer more severe consequences or fatalities from Covid-19 in comparison to healthier individuals. Health Brings Wealth highlights the various areas of medical branches, citing scientifically-backed preventive measures and advice from the 4 co-authors who have spent their lifetime practicing and researching in their medical fields. Maintaining optimal health is the key to wellbeing, longevity and to avoid or delay disease.
Taking inspiration from the success and vision of Dr Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth, MD who is himself a living model of health and longevity; the founder and President of Bangkok Dusit Medical services (BDMS) and the award-winning BDMS Wellness Clinic brings together 4 renowned co-authors to result in Health Brings Wealth, highly anticipated book on health and wellness launching April of this 2022. The 4 co-authors; Prof Ji?? Dvo??k, Prof Sergio Fazio, Adj Asst Prof Tanupol Virunhagarun and Prof Keith L. Black bring together a holistic perspective based on preventive medicine and proven research that is applicable as well as informative to all readers. From Neuroscience to Sports Science; Cardiology and Regenerative Medicine, Health Brings Wealth manages to combine all these into one comprehensive and educational but easy-to-follow book that is also engaging. Putting health advice into practice, Health Brings Wealth highlights the Doctors' experiences, patient stories, how-to's and even a healthy recipe section from renowned chefs and home cooks; such as Chef Ian Kittichai.
Why did these 4 Co-authors combine their efforts to write Health Brings Wealth?
A part of every doctor's goal is to cure patients, but we all know that prevention certainly is better than cure. This book was written to with the goal to educate people to live longer, healthier and happier by sharing decades of experience, advanced research, in-depth studies together with medical practice in their respective fields have resulted in a book that is rich with useful advice, information as it is engaging. Dispelling any myths, Health Brings Wealth hopes to give applicable advice based on scientific findings to put into daily practice in the long-term.
In this book, perspectives based on different medical fields are combined in discussion and how everyday choices can impact overall health systems.
Some key highlights from our co-authors and experts emphasize key advice based on their respective specialisms and how these impact each health system. Prof Ji?? Dvo??k's main specialism on Neurology and Spinal injuries and conditions, Sports Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine promotes a healthy lifestyle through to research on the impact of exercise; an advocate on the prescribed 30-minute 'exercise pill' and importance of nutrition. Prof Sergio Fazio as an expert on Preventive Cardiology discusses the importance of the cardiovascular system and root causes of cardiovascular disease. Adj Asst Prof Tanupol Virunhagarun as a regenerative doctor focuses his topics on lifestyle factors; centered around the core of lifestyle and anti-aging medicine; in addition to chronic diseases, obesity-related diseases and causes. Prof Keith L. Black as a world renowned neurosurgeon with a prolific body of work, his expertise on brain diseases and tumors will emphasize the important duty of the brain and how to optimize brain health and wellness as you age to prevent degenerating diseases such as Alzheimer's, Dementia and Parkinson's disease.
Perhaps the most important message to distill for readers is to form lifelong healthy habits that are realistic and simple enough to commit to in the long-term. As concluded in the preface by the co-authors "We hope you will enjoy reading this book and benefit from the pearls of wisdom within. A long-term healthy lifestyle does not mean sacrificing all your favorite activities and foods — even small lifestyle changes can make an impact. To end, we would like readers to remember is that it's never too early or too late to start living a healthy lifestyle and appreciating how health brings purposeful wealth to life!"
This graphical and visually stunning 228-page book, Health Brings Wealth will be in-stores from mid-April 2022 at Asiabooks Thailand, Save Drug at a price of 990 baht. International distribution will be planned from April onwards with e-books available on Amazon.com worldwide.
As Hippocrates once said "A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession." So Health Brings Wealth is perfect as a gift for yourself and those you love.
What do the authors say about their motivation behind this book?
Prof Ji?? Dvo??k "The Covid 19 pandemic forced the global population to stand back, for many an opportunity to think and reconsider their individual way of life, think about Health and Disease. It became so obvious that pre-existing diseases, many of them preventable, and Covid 19 infection had worst outcome, need of admission to ICU (Intensive Care Unit) and even caused death. This is such a strong warning sign to consider those facts and take action on individual and community level. To facilitate the process of understanding of well-established scientific evidence was the motivation of us 4 co-authors, each at peak of professional careers, to present the evidence in layman language in an easy to read book "Health brings Wealth".
Prof Sergio Fazio "To convey the message that for most of us health is not the result of hightech interventions or use of expensive medicines but what you get by understanding your body and investing in it with the low tech approaches of eating well, thinking well, doing well, sleeping well, moving well, and avoiding poisonous influences of any kind (air pollution, manufactured foods, direct sunlight, loud music, social media, etc.).
What I wish for the reader to gain is the knowledge that health is not the absence of disease but a state of being to be constantly pursued even when carrying chronic conditions. You can be healthy and getting healthier with asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. In truth, we don't lose our health when we get a diagnosis of a disease but when we let go of healthy habits."
Prof Keith L. Black ''The phrase 'an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure' captures my motivation for this book. My goals were to provide tools to empower the reader to take charge of their wellness and the wellness of their loved ones".
About the Book
The book comprises of 10 chapters
Chapter 1 Hippocrates on Preventive Healthcare
- Hippocrates, the Father of Modern Medicine and the Aims of Science
- The Goal of Science
Chapter 2 The Legacy of Dr Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth, MD
- A Visionary Leader
- BDMS Wellness Clinic
Chapter 3 Co-Authors
- Ji?? Dvo??k, MD A Commitment to Spine, Sport and Preventive Medicine
- Sergio Fazio, MD, PhD The Medical Art Called Preventive Cardiology
- Tanupol Virunhagarun, MD Why Wellness & Regenerative Medicine
Keith Black, MD In Pursuit of Brain Wellness Chapter 4 Physical Activity is Your Cheapest Medicine
- Physical Activity is Your Cheapest Medicine
- The Scientific Evidence on Physical Activity
- 11 Habits to Keep You Fit
Chapter 5 Balanced Nutrition is Key for Your Health
- Balanced Nutrition is Key for Your Health
- A Higher Risk of Developing NCDs
- A Side-Effect of a Modern Pandemic: The Benefit of Balanced Meals
- The Principle of Portion Control
- The Body Measurements to Know
- The Principles of Balanced Nutrition
- 11 Habits to Optimize Your Metabolism
Chapter 6 Preventive Cardiology: What You Need to Know and Do
- What is Heart Disease and Why is it so Common?
- It's Impossible to go Through Life Without Putting Your Heart at Risk
- Risk is Manageable and Heart Disease is Preventable
- You Can Only Manage What You Know, so Know Your Risk
- You Were Born With a Healthy Heart, Keep it That Way
- 11 Habits to Stay Young at Heart
Chapter 7 Optimizing Brain Wellness as You Age
- Optimizing Brain Wellness as You Age
Chapter 8 Lifestyle Medicine: Five Pillars for Optimizing Your Health
- Lifestyle Medicine: Five Pillars for Optimizing Your Health
- Why Regular Health Checks by a Lifestyle Medicine Physician are Important
- Genetic Testing
- The 5 Pillars of Health
Chapter 9 Patient Stories
Chapter 10 Recipes for Home Cooks
Up to 18 sumptuous and healthy recipes are given.
About the Authors
Prof Ji?? Dvo??k, MD
Zurich, Switzerland
Senior Consultant in Neurology and Research at the Spine Center, Schulthess Clinic, Zurich, where he previously served as Chairman for 35 years. A Professor of Neurology at the University of Zurich, former Chief Medical Officer at FIFA, and a Consultant at BDMS Wellness Clinic, Bangkok. Prof Ji?? Dvo??k is a Senior Advisor of the British Journal of Sports Medicine, a previous Deputy Editor of SPINE, and is widely published with 462 original articles. His immense contributions to spine research on clinical biomechanics and to sports medicine on injury prevention have resulted in numerous awards. His current research activities are focused on prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases, and he is also developing a national-level Lifestyle Medicine Diploma for Thailand. An Honorary Member of EUROSPINE, which he co-founded in 1990, also at the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopedic Sports Medicine, and the Czech Medical Academy.
Prof Sergio Fazio, MD, PhD
Portland, Oregon and Tarrytown, New York, US
A medicine graduate of the University of Rome, Prof Fazio completed his PhD at the University of California. He joined Vanderbilt University. First in the Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, and then in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine where he was promoted to full Professor and Chief of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention before continuing as Professor of Cardiology at Stanford University. At Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), he served as Director of the William and Sonja Connor Center for Preventive Cardiology. There, he also started a collaboration to bring the tenets of preventive cardiology to Thailand and is a Consultant at BDMS Wellness Clinic, Bangkok. Prof Fazio recently joined Regeneron Pharmaceuticals as a member of its Scientific Council. During his career, Prof Fazio has published over 320 peer-reviewed papers and contributed to guidelines of care in preventive cardiology. He founded the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology Arteriosclerosis, official organ of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology, and has served on the editorial board of several scientific journals. He is a former President of the American Board of Clinical Lipidology, the only American organization issuing specialty certification in preventive cardiology.
Adj Asst Prof Tanupol Virunhagarun, MD
Bangkok, Thailand
Adj Asst Prof Tanupol is the CEO of BDMS Wellness Clinic, Bangkok, the preventive medical clinic of Bangkok Dusit Medical Services, one of the global top five healthcare providers. He is President of the Bangkok Association of Regenerative Health and The Study of Obesity, and an active advocate of lifestyle medicine. Well-known as Dr Amp, he is a popular social media influencer with his educational Dr Amp Team channel which has so far amassed 45 million views and 750,000 followers. With his goal to spread knowledge about different health topics to the Thai public, Adj Asst Prof Tanupol has also authored numerous successful Thai-language books including: Eat Well, Live Long; 100 Years of Great Health; Secrets of Longevity and Anti-Aging; and Power of Sleep, Power of Health. He is a Member of the Editorial Board for the peer-reviewed Bangkok Medical Journal and is becoming more active within the education sector with his appointment as Adjunct Assistant Professor at the ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Mahidol University.
Prof Keith L. Black, MD
Los Angeles, California, USA
Dr. Keith L. Black is a renowned neurosurgeon and scientist in Los Angeles. He received his medical degree from University of Michigan Medical School and has been in practice for more than 20 years.
Keith L. Black is the chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery and the director of the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Black also holds the Ruth and Lawrence Harvey Chair in Neurosciences and is a professor of neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. At age seventeen, he published his first scientific paper, which earned the Westinghouse Science Award. He earned both his undergraduate and medical degrees in six years. He completed his internship in general surgery and residency in neurological surgery at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor.
Dr. Black has pioneered research on designing ways to open the blood-brain barrier, enabling chemotherapeutic drugs to be delivered directly into the tumor. His other ground-breaking research includes developing a vaccine to enhance the body's immune response to brain tumors, using gene arrays to develop molecular profiles of tumors, employing optical technology for brain mapping. He has also made use of precisely targeted microwave radiation to kill cancer cells, a computer-driven technology that may someday be performed remotely, without requiring the physical presence of the surgeon in the operating room.
His work had drawn national attention. He was profiled on the public television series The New Explorers, the magazine Esquire included him on its list of "The 21 Most Important People of the 21st Century," and TIME magazine featured him on the cover of a 1997 special edition, "Heroes of Medicine." His autobiography, Brain Surgeon, was published in 2009.
Source: Mascot Communication
